Cassandra Disque | September 26, 2008
The surgery on my knee is on Monday. Three and a half more days. Unlike the first knee surgery, this time I’m worried. I wish I had a smidge of the feeling of invincibility that I had when I was 20. It doesn’t help that this time, the doctor is actually repairing the knee instead [...]
Cassandra Disque | September 12, 2008
Knee surgery is September 29. Two weeks minimum in the wheelchair thereafter. Two months of physical therapy starting as soon as the stitches are removed. 3-6 months general recovery, doctor said. Months of pain on the left side of the kneecap, which may never go away due to the CRPS. May or may not recover [...]
Cassandra Disque | September 11, 2008
I just had an awful feeling: I realized I don’t know my city at all any more. There are now two bedroom apartments for rent in Columbia Heights for $3,000+. There’s a building on Belmont — one of my formerly most loved, now one of my most despised streets — where studios 185 sq. ft [...]
Since 1996, my life has been a long journey of visiting one doctor after another. I look more or less fine, but I'm not. My daily pill count is like playing the dozens with a hospice patient. One doctor will say I'm doomed, and send me to another for treatment, but the treating doctor will find nothing within his or her area of practice that can be treated.
My life is better than a comedy, better than a drama. Anyone who has done this knows what I mean when I say that you have to not only know the rules, but also play the part in order to be allowed in the game. Most people find what we go through in the medical merry-go-round to be unbelievable, which is why I call it "The Drag of Gimp."
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